After World War II, American lives will change due to the middle class unexpectedly expanding due to suburbanization, unemployment rates were decreasing, and the United States will become the most powerful country in the world due to the technological creation of the nuclear bomb which won’t last very long because the Soviet Union will test their nuclear weapon in 1949. The 1950’s deserves its reputation as an age of political, social, and cultural conformity to a great extent due to Eisenhower needing to enhance old policies, the eagerness of America wanting to get rid of communism and to prove that the American lifestyle was the best way to live. Politics was in the 1950’s was known as the “age of conformity” due to the rise of Eisenhower
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Television was becoming popular in the 1950’s and it would show the “perfect suburban life”. A man’s job was to work but now instead of working at a factory, you had white collared jobs. The return of the cult of domesticity will come back at the end of WWII. Women will be forced to leave the workplace to return home where they would once again cook and clean for their family. Forty percent of the women at this time will work outside of the house part-time and they will work at the office, a school, or a hospital. Women will go to college then get their “MRS” degree, education, on the other hand, will be a backup plan. Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique and she writes about how men and women should be equal. In this time period, they wanted you to marry early and have a bunch of kids. But it isn’t until 1962 that the birth rates will be dropping for 6 million to 3 million. The middle class will unexpectedly expand due to suburbians. Middle-class people would move out of the cities to Levittowns which were cookie cutter neighborhoods. By doing this it made it difficult to segregate schools without extensive busing. At this time African Americans will challenge the Jim Crow laws in the South. African Americans wanted their Civil Rights. They had no conformity because they had minorities and the wanting of Civil Rights. Women will once again get involved in politics and African Americans will fight for their Civil Rights. They had multiple cases and incidents to fight for African American Civil Rights, for example, you had the Plessy Vs. Ferguson Case, Menendez Vs. Westminster, Sweatt Vs. Painter, Brown Vs. Board of Education (Topeka), Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Little Rock. At the Plessy Vs. Ferguson Case the Supreme Court enforces the “separate but equal.” They were able to vote but only 20 percent was registered to vote but only 6 percent could vote in Mississippi.
Television was becoming popular in the 1950’s and it would show the “perfect suburban life”. A man’s job was to work but now instead of working at a factory, you had white collared jobs. The return of the cult of domesticity will come back at the end of WWII. Women will be forced to leave the workplace to return home where they would once again cook and clean for their family. Forty percent of the women at this time will work outside of the house part-time and they will work at the office, a school, or a hospital. Women will go to college then get their “MRS” degree, education, on the other hand, will be a backup plan. Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique and she writes about how men and women should be equal. In this time period, they wanted you to marry early and have a bunch of kids. But it isn’t until 1962 that the birth rates will be dropping for 6 million to 3 million. The middle class will unexpectedly expand due to suburbians. Middle-class people would move out of the cities to Levittowns which were cookie cutter neighborhoods. By doing this it made it difficult to segregate schools without extensive busing. At this time African Americans will challenge the Jim Crow laws in the South. African Americans wanted their Civil Rights. They had no conformity because they had minorities and the wanting of Civil Rights. Women will once again get involved in politics and African Americans will fight for their Civil Rights. They had multiple cases and incidents to fight for African American Civil Rights, for example, you had the Plessy Vs. Ferguson Case, Menendez Vs. Westminster, Sweatt Vs. Painter, Brown Vs. Board of Education (Topeka), Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Little Rock. At the Plessy Vs. Ferguson Case the Supreme Court enforces the “separate but equal.” They were able to vote but only 20 percent was registered to vote but only 6 percent could vote in Mississippi.